Key Terms, Events, and People

Question 1

What is the 13th amendment?

Answer 1

The amendment that abolished slavery.

Question 2

What is the 14th amendment?

Answer 2

The amendment that granted citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.

Question 3

What is the 15th amendment?

Answer 3

The amendment that gave all men in the U.S. the right to vote.

Question 4

What is the 16th amendment?

Answer 4

The amendment that stated that congress could collect taxes.

Question 5

What is the 17th amendment?

Answer 5

The amendment that stated that 2 people from each state could serve in senate.

Question 6

What is the 18th amendment?

Answer 6

The amendment that stated selling, manufacturing, and transporting alcoholic beverages was illegal.

Question 7

What is the 19th amendment?

Answer 7

The amendment that granted women the right to vote.

Question 8

What is reconstruction?

Answer 8

To construct or form again; used to reunite the South into the Union.

Question 9

What is the Freedman’s Bureau?

Answer 9

An organization that aided former slaves and poor whites by distributing food&clothing. The organization also built schools and hospitals.

Question 10

What is the KKK?

Answer 10

A secret terrorist group made of confederate veterans, mayors, judges, and sheriffs. The KKK believed in white supremacy and would violently work to prove this. The KKK wanted to prevent social equality.

Question 11

What are the Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 11

Local and state laws for radical segregation.

Question 12

What is a carpetbagger?

Answer 12

People who went to the South to take advantage of unsettled conditions of the war and exploit the South.

Question 13

What are exodusters?

Answer 13

African American migrants who moved out of the South(mostly to the Midwest).

Question 14

What is the battle of Wounded Knee?

Answer 14

The last Indian War. The battle was a conflict between the North Dakota Native Americans and the Americans.

Question 15

Who was Sitting Bull?

Answer 15

The leader of the Sioux Native Americans in North Dakota.

Question 16

Who was Joseph Glidden?

Answer 16

The inventor of the barbed wire.

Question 17

What is the homestead act?

Answer 17

The act that gave 160 acres of land to Americans who were willing to farm for at least 5 years.

Question 18

What is the Dawes Act?

Answer 18

The act that divided Native American tribal land amongst individual families of Native Americans if the families promised to stay and farm the land and be more American(not nomadic anymore but had acquired US citizenship).

Question 19

What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?

Answer 19

Ellis Island: NY port of entry for immigrants.

Angel Island: San Francisco Bay(California) port of entry for immigrants.

Question 20

What are tenements?

Answer 20

Multi-family houses created to provide in immigrants with houses. Tenements were designed to fit in as many families as possible. Tenements were not clean, had little windows, poor ventilation, and were dangerous.

Question 21

What are Settlement Houses?

Answer 21

Places that provided poor immigrants with social services. Immigrants could receive food, clothing, medical attention, and learn English. They were also free to practice their own customs.

Question 22

What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?

Answer 22

A tragedy where many women and children were kills due to unsafe working conditions. This tragedy lead to reforms for better working conditions.

Question 23

Who was Lewis Hines?

Answer 23

A photographer who spread awareness about child labor. Lewis=Labor

Question 24

Who was Jacob Riis?

Answer 24

A photographer and journalist who spread awareness of life in the slums.

Question 25

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 25

The theory that the survival of the the fittest could be applied to society.

Question 26

What is a monopoly?

Answer 26

When one business controls an entire industry because it has eliminated competition/when a company dominates a market.

Question 27

What was the Pullman Strike?

Answer 27

A strike by the workers at Pullman company because their wages and work hours were being lowered while their rent and other expenses were going up.

Question 28

What are Muckrakers?

Answer 28

Journalists who exposed the corrupt side of businesses and public life.

Question 29

What is suffrage?

Answer 29

Women’s right to vote in public elections.

Question 30

What are U-boats?

Answer 30

German submarines.

Question 31

What was the Lusitania?

Answer 31

The U.S. ship that was sunk that caused the U.S. to join the war.

Question 32

What is Trench Warfare?

Answer 32

A type of fighting during WWI in which opposing forces dug trenches protected by mines and barbed wire.

Question 33

What is “No Man’s Land”?

Answer 33

An area of land between 2 opposing trenches.

Question 34

What was the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 34

The treaty that ended WWI and basically blamed the entire war on Germany.

Question 35

What was the League of Nations?

Answer 35

The creation of an international organization to address diplomatic crisis’ like those that sparked the war.